About LOD

Levels Of Detail is a group blog written lovingly for you by the members of Mefight Club. It is administered by your genial host stavrosthewonderchicken.

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We’re a somewhat-mature, mostly-good-looking, almost-entirely-funloving group of people who started off with Metafilter membership and a fondness for gaming in common. Now, more than 8 years later, we share much, much more. Legal restrictions and a sense of propriety prohibit me from enumeration of details, but barbecue, baked goods, and astonishing centrifugal kitchen technology have all played roles in the Binding.

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Well, today’s podcast would have come online earlier today, but due to a bewildering array of extenuating circumstances, it’s going up late. My frustrating day certainly matches the tone of the news we have for this week, what with EA deciding to retake their Asshole Crown and the gamer bitchfest about every decision made by any game company reaching deafening levels of volume. There was some good news as well, Valve is taking one of their games free-to-play, Al Gore backs gaming as a legit medium, and Microsoft released the Kinect SDK beta. So, please, Share and Enjoy; I’m going to get drunk.

No, it sadly isn’t a real Golden Ticket to Valve’s headquarters, but listener Katrel was nice enough to make it for us after our opining last week (he tells us he found it in a “box” of Portal 2), which takes the sting away a little. Thanks, Katrel!

This week has been slow for the gaming industry, allowing us to bring you all the news that is fit for your eagerly awaiting ears. We cover things like hacker troubles in Zynga-land, the state of PC ports, and how Nintendo is managing to mess up a product that is selling out anyways, as well as Metacritic’s lose-lose developer ratings system.

For feedback, complaints, and suggestions, hit us up at LODpodcast@LevelsOfDetail.com. If you’re listening to us via iTunes, please review us so we aren’t so sad and lonely.